Oscar Francis

Emergency personnel work at the site where a truck driver was trapped for nearly two hours after his vehicle crashed into a ditch near Milton yesterday.

A popular Otago Peninsula tourist destination has received $633,000 in conservation funding to continue its critical work protecting the endangered yellow-eyed penguin (hoiho).

December was a bad month for Dunedin City Council staff and contractors, who endured a sharp increase in abuse and harassment from the public.

Hobbled by a stoush over how to apply vaccine passports, a popular weekly run at the Dunedin Botanic Garden has been stymied since the Covid-19 lockdown in August last year.

Two people were transported to Dunedin Hospital after a vehicle with steamed-up windows collided with a parked car in Dunedin on Monday evening.

A shirtless man walked away from a badly damaged car after it hit a tree at Corstorphine Park early yesterday.

Toilet paper has been wiped out at some Dunedin supermarkets, despite retailers encouraging consumers to avoid panic-buying after new Covid-19 restrictions came into force.

A Dunedin motel owner says he will no longer supply emergency accommodation after a resident rammed a police car in a KFC drive-through next door.

Havoc at airports across the United States over concerns its 5G rollout could interfere with aircraft safety will not happen in New Zealand, the telecommunications industry says.

A spate of burglaries at a North East Valley community project has drawn attention to the "desperate" situation of some Dunedin community members.

Fire crews responded to a suspicious fire on Monday night in the Silverstream area, near Dunedin.